Sweeney Forgoes Run For Gov in NJ

A quick update on the gubernatorial race in New Jersey, one of the last few legitimate candidates out there that had not announced his intentions one way or the other, the Democratic State Senate President Stephen Sweeney has announced he will not run.

Right now, as far as I know, Barbara Buono is the only Democrat currently in the race to take on Chris Christie. There is apparently an Independent candidate by the name of Diane Sare who has announced she is running, but seeing that she has an item celebrating Lyndon LaRouche’s 90th Birthday last year on the front page of her campaign site, my guess is she is somewhat on the fringe….

Michael (Jeanne Marie for Lt. Governor) says:
January 28, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Could it be possible that Christie’s influence might be shifting NJ from a Dark Blue to more of a Moderate/normal blue? Discuss

Bitter Valdez, I appreciate your candor. However, in all fairness, I suppose that I should be outed now as well. There was an effort by my groupies in Wisconsin to write me in for Town Treasurer in Farmington. I received somewhere in the neighbourhood of 40-50 votes, but as I was not an announced W/I candidate, I am pretty sure those votes were tossed out. Pity, as I doubt there are not much more than 100-150 registered voters in that place, and local treasurer would make a fine stepping stone to higher office, certainly no worse than a school board that might propel one into a governorship one day.

Bronxie, were you around for Keybored back in the day? I miss the old Marxist. He dropped off one day and I was concered that he might have vectored towards that big aircraft carrier in the sky (he was supposedly an old airedale – a little Navy jargon for someone who works in aviation).

I have been around since 2004 or so. I did not post as much, and I may have posted under a different name, between 2004 and 2008 I was a hit&runner. I guess the Jay Cost blog introduced me to this one and to Polipundit, or did Polipundit introduce me to this place? I forget. Since 2008, I have been around much too much!
Yes, I do remember Keybored, and the other names which are mentioned as the old stalwart liberal guard. I did not know him as well as the regulars do.

How come more people have not commented on the immigration proposal? I am sorry, but for Rubio to mix himself up with Graham & McCain, Schumer & Durbin, that really makes me suspect he is not the right person to lead this nation. There is no way enforcement will be 1st, 2nd, or 3rd with Schumer & Durbin participating.

Conservative Rep. Steve King is seriously considering a run for the Iowa Senate seat being vacated by Tom Harkin, and even Republicans who worry that he would struggle in a general election acknowledge that the tea party favorite would enter the race as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination.

60. So Rubio laying down with Schumer, Durbin, McCain & Graham does not make you have any questions??”

Let’s see what they come up with.

If Rubio is onboard, he probably got some of his own input in it. Which would be good.

Nobody has been more against amnesty than me on this board. I tore Rick Perry a new one for his pro-amnesty statements, and I like Rick Perry

But if you are reconciled to the fact 12 million people are not going to be deported, then we have to try to reach some solution. My preference is for a system that gets control of the border and delays and restricts any “path to citizenship” as much as possible.

We don’t have any right now. The facts are my friends is that this is an issue Republicans who oppose reform will ultimately lose on. The seeds of that defeat were built in 2005 and 2006. The same way the seeds of the GOP defeat on taxes were built in 2001.

“So this is going to happen whether NY Mike and the other anti-immigration Republicans like it or not.”

-I am anti-immigration because I am worried about the other Senators that Marco Rubio is working with? What are you, Little Mikey’s little sister, throwing around nonsense insults with no evidence to back it up? I am not anti-immigrant at all, considering that we have at least 2 men currently working for us who have been going through the process for a very long time, and my father also sponsored people in his earlier days.

I will repeat, my worry right now is not the bill itself, but the people Rubio has worked with on it! I do not trust the other Senators at all! I think they will use Rubio for cover, he better be willing to come out against if they start watering down any enforcement provisions.

Again when given the opportunity to pass a bill 100% on their own terms the many in the GOP blocked it.

It seems with the GOP it’s always about missed opportunity. Whether it’s about taxes, spending, immigration etc., etc.. Instead of worrying about Tery Shaivo during that first year of Bush’s second term they should have done something on this.

i believe jan took over the original jan’s handle, leaving only the original jan to call herself janz. jan also was one of the people mking “lists” of people who thought O was doing well in the campaign.

I have to go with Tiger here, simply because he manned up and said he left California the week he became pro because of the tax issue. Where the heck has Phil Mickelson been the last 20 years? He just realized now he was subsidizing all the gangs in L.A.?

#90:
Gov. Christie, I respect. I don’t agree with him on many of the issues, because he’s a Conservative Republican. Still, he has earned my respect. He’s a good and decent public servant. He put the welfare of the people of New Jersey before politics. And, that has nothing to do with photo ops.

-Oh yeah, it had nothing to do with how he would be looked at by the media. He did it all for the people of NJ. Obama wanting to tax corporations more, and wanting to tax dividends at a higher rate, no one in NJ got hurt by those little things. And Obama’s EPA, that won’t cost the NJ citizens more when paying their utility bills.

Tuesday
Scholar: We have 24 dollars for dinner tonight.
Tim: Let’s go buy 2 steaks for $38. We’ll pay the rest tomorrow.
Scholar: You know, maybe we should pay the steakhouse the $14 we owe, and eat Ramen noodles tonight.
Tim: Let’s go to the pasta place instead, we can get a great meal for $38, and we’ll pay them back the next day.
Scholar: I think I need to change this habit of not paying off debts.
Tim: Well, I’ll go find the “working man” and treat him to dinner. C U L8R!

Now that he has secured his second term, President Barack Obama has already secretly pledged to the Palestinians he will press Israel into a new round of so-called land-for-peace negotiations, a top Palestinian Authority negotiator told KleinOnline.
The negotiator said top members of the Obama administration told the Palestinians the U.S. president will renew
Now that he has secured his second term, President Barack Obama has already secretly pledged to the Palestinians he will press Israel into a new round of so-called land-for-peace negotiations, a top Palestinian Authority negotiator told KleinOnline.

The negotiator said top members of the Obama administration told the Palestinians the U.S. president will renew talks aimed at creating a Palestinian state in the so-called 1967 borders—meaning in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and, notably, eastern Jerusalem.

My biggest problem with this latest immigration bill is that it, once again, is simply not punitive enough to discourage the exact same behavior. Also, for those trying to get in legally, those here illegally should NOT be given a pass in front of them.

Having said all of this, it is now a matter of mathematics and we are going to lose on that account. So, a solution is going to happen or we are going to have elections that are going to the dentist and having your teeth pulled out without Novocaine.

Sigh – they will get scholarships while I have to struggle to send my kids to a decent college. The incentive is to NOT work. Cheat. Break the law. That is where the rewards are these days. Work? That is for suckers.

Why would Rubio sign on to something like this? Like you said, there is not even a bill yet, but why not avoid guys like Schumer and Durbin? They are toxic, and not to be trusted. At least try to get Dem Senators from a red state to go along with you.

MD – can you explain how Jul was not a supporter of AG Kaine even though he voted for her? Your insight would be appreciated. He also loves Castor over zcorbett but that was expected. I hope he gets to explain why he supports Alyson Schwartz or Joe Sestak in 2014 as a True Conservative.

NYC – I didn’t watch it and I’m not going back for it. Corbett commented on a law that did’t pass. He said that if it had passed, women did’t have to look at the ultrasound. Corbett has never campaigned on abortion. The fact that Jul hates Corbett as a RINO bodes very well for Corbett in the suburbs.

Frank Camp says:
Barack Obama pins his own shortcomings on his opponents so elegantly that most low-information voters are completely unaware of his falsity. In classic propagandist form, he is painting Conservatives as the monsters, when everything he attributes to them describes himself and his own Party. So, if the yardstick with which you measure dishonesty is this reversal, I’d call Obama the “Propagandist President.” There are many other things I would call him as well, but I’ll leave that to your wild imaginations.

STFU, Bunu, you piece of nazi $%&@. I would kick you in the face if I wasn’t so worried that the steaming pile of crap that you were wouldn’t blow back and stain the nice winter jacket that your mother gave me last night.

Why don’t you just go sodomize yourself with a rusty fence post. I’ll hold up the picture of Ron and Rand so you can enjoy it more fully. Heck, I’ll even lend you my belt so you can tighten it around your neck. Maybe we will get lucky and you will go into a coma, that you won’t wake up from until Ron Paul is taking a long overdue dirt nap and Rand Paul is outted as the puppetmaster of Stormfront and is run out of DC on a rail.

Then you’ll have nothing to post links of.

You piece of Ronulan scum, I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire or offer you the sweat off my balls if you were dying of thirst!

It provides too much hope for those in the Black community that they can get good at football, get a multimillion contract and rise above the plantation of the hood and make something of themselves without the help of the government.

Besides that those $50-$100MM pro football salaries being pulled down by Black players really skews the salaries of the average Black family in America and does not show as big a gap between Blacks and honkies as I want it to show.

seeing bunu call someone else a troll is so freaking funny. Hating bunu is the one thing that unites with blog. You are the troll and you haven’t come to terms with it yet.

And no, I am not NYCmike. He likes your son…I don’t.

Follow along you dog turd of a man. Rub those two brain cells together and maybe you will be able to figure out, who out of all the thousands of people that despise you, the hundreds that post here, and the scores that have slept with your mom…that I am.

Here is what the American public OVERWHELMINGLY want concerning how to deal with the illegal immigration problem.

First and foremost, do your fricking constitutional JOB to protect against foreign invasion and close down the border tighter than a tick–meaning SECURE the border all 1500 or so miles of the southern border. Fence, mine field, troops, electronic and aerial surveilance–whatever it takes.

You @ssholes have failed to fix it for 20 years and have let it grow to these 11-15 or more Millions of illegals we now have here.

Every one of you @sshole congressmen should be REQUIRED to live in home within 50 feet of the Mexican border–WITHOUT any security detail to protect your @ss–and you OF COURSE will NOT be allowed to have ANY firearms at your dwelling to protect yourself, loved ones and property from illegal immigration activity.
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And the PATH TO CITIZENSHIP?

Here is the F-ing path to citizenship.

EVery fricking person who is here ILLEGALLY will get their @ss rounded up and shipped out of here to their motherland.

No more free goverment sh!t. No more.

The path to U.S. citizenship for them leads OUT of this country to their home country and they can APPLY and GET IN F***** LINE–LIKE ALL LEGAL APPLICANTS from thier OWN country and others.
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If you do not have the B@lls to do the above and instead grant amnesty to all illegals now here and tack on some dollar penalty or fine–it damn sight better be at least $200,000 per illegal immigrant to cover all the costs incurred by the U.S. in dealing with illegal immigration (prison costs, education costs, medical costs, enforcement costs, etc., etc, etc.)

No more anchor babies either.

Yes, we need to have a sensible program to allow foreign workers to come into the U.S.–closely monitoring and tracking and grabbed and expelled if they mess up.

McCain said that Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and others will be working on the legislation. The exact outline of what will be in the bill is unclear, but McCain said the Senators will announce its key “principles” this week.

What if they had enlisted in the U.S. armed forces and carried arms defending this country?

Tough sh!t.

Thank him for his service, seise any assets he accumlated while commiting his fraudulent action and

Kick him OUT!
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What about the poor children who were brought here by their illegal immigrant parents?

Tough sh!t.
Kick the kids out, too.
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What about the 70 year old immigrant who has lived here in the shadows for 50 years, worked hard, never lived in government subsidixed housing, never sent their kids to public schools, never once visited a U.S. hospital to recieve subsidized care, never had kids go to state supported 2 or 4 year higher Ed institutions, never was on food stamps or any other welfare, etc., never committed any crime (other than entering the U.S. illegally, falsifying documents, lying on employment records and God knows what else)

Just discovered that we have 14 million people here that are here illegally.

Population equal to population of entire state of WV TIMES 8!!!

We have no idea where they came from, what disease they may have, how they have been surviving economically, what all they may have been doing since they have been here, how much they have ALREADY cost U.S. taxpaers or will in the FUTURE cost the taxpayers, etc.

The country does not have the political consensus or interest to forcibly remove 11 million people from its borders- that isn’t happening, sorry, no way, not going to. So it’s a matter of what to do with them.

I’d be okay with some level of “pay the fine, learn English, work/pay taxes, and don’t receive citizenship for a LENGTHY period of time – as long as the people that are in the legal lines go first for everything. Seriously, the people that have done it all correctly and risk deportation if they lose their jobs – put those people on the fast track- reward legal action, etc. Not helping on that front is my deal-breaker on this.

Walt, how many immigrants in your part of West Virginia do you have there, really?

There is a presence here. More since construction boom that started here about 10 years ago. MS 13 is in the area. Problems with illegals being involved in drugs trafficking, robberies, murders, shooting, thefts, etc.–almost weekly newspaper accounts in this region.

Most sh!t for brains liberals and sh!t for brains low information voters/people have no clue as to connecting the dots as to local societal problems that stem from the illegal population.

In the last 10 years I have attended quad state legislative meetings involving WV,VA,MD and PA with law enforcment folks in this region that have been a real eye opener. And regional law enforcement getting practically no help from feederal authorities.

I wish the general public knew what I know. But the general public is dumb and happy.

They need illegal services (fake drivers licenses, other ID). They become prey of other illegal organized crime gangs who make tons of money off the “hard working” illegals to provide documents. Of course they also rob, rape (or forced prostitution) and kill the “hard working” ones.

Local authorities catch the illegals due to a work site inspection, DUI stop, accident, fight, shooting or knifing, etc. Turn them over to federal authorities, feds kick em lose.

When a real bad illegal dude murders someone and is caught, they go to prison.

Cost to the court, police investigation, etc. plus prison costs of $25,000 per year once convicted. You and I are the poor dumb sh!ts footing all that cost. Plus the “free” ER costs to patch up the stabee, shootee, etc.–you and I are paying for that too.

If you think illegals have not figured ways to game the system and get food stamps, subsidized housing, free or subsidized medical care you have poop for brains.

I held up passsage of a bill in committee due to my amendment to ensure that any city parking garage employee of any WV municipality be a legal resident of the U.S.

I was painted as someone who was unreasonable.

I did get an amendment passed in the education committee though to prevent someone who was not a legal resident of the U.S. (an ILLEGAL immigrant) from being awarded a state funded scholarship. Passed 24 to 1 in committee and became law in WV.

Fed law says same thing for Pell grants–illegal immigrants cannot get them. (unless YoMamas has now issued an executive order changing that)